To flee Arizona: Illegal immigrants, before the new law takes effect on Thursday that would require state and local police to ask for documentation from anyone they suspect of being in the country illegally.

To threaten to cut off the U.S. oil supply: President Hugo Chavez. Blaming the U.S. for tension in Latin America, he said in a speech to thousands of supporters: “If there is any armed aggression against Venezuela from Colombian territory or anywhere else supported by the Yankee empire, we … would suspend shipments of oil to the United States!”